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12 September 201812 September 2018

Principals Report – Week 8, Term 3Welcome to Mullaway

Welcome Indiana to Mullaway. A new student starting in Glossyclass this week.

School Uniform

Well done everyone for wearing our Mullaway School Uniform.You all look smart in your teal and black. I have been extremelyhappy to see mostly 100% correct uniforms every day this term.Just a friendly reminder that girls are allowed to wear shortshowever can parents and carers please make sure they are ofan appropriate, modest length please. As the weather starts toheat up it is important to have a hat on when outside. Pleasehave your child/ren’s name on your hat to help return it to thecorrect owner if found. The front office can print off iron onname tags for $1.00 for 2 labels.

Measles

There has been some confirmed cases of measles in the localarea. The following is the media release from NSW Health.

NSW Health advises residents in the CoffsHarbour-Woolgoolga area of the Mid-North Coast to be alert forsigns and symptoms of measles infection following diagnosis ofthe illness in an unvaccinated child in the area.

The child is likely to have acquired their infection followingcontact with a recently returned traveller from South East Asia.

The child spent time in Woolgoolga on Tuesday 28 August andthe Coffs Harbour CBD on Wednesday 29 and Thursday 30August. Details of specific exposure sites are provided below.

In a media release, Dr Paul Corben, Director of the North CoastPublic Health Unit advised "anyone who was in these locationsshould watch for symptoms. As the investigation is ongoing,other places and times of potential exposure may be identified.People should be alert to symptoms until 17 September."

Dr Corben says it is important for people to see the GP if theyhave symptoms, and limit exposure to others until a diagnosishas been made.

NSW Health recommends people suffering symptoms ofmeasles call ahead to the GP or ED they plan to visit, to advisethem of their symptoms, so their exposure to others can belimited when they arrive.

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Potential exposure sites

Woolgoolga and Coffs Harbour

28th August - Thursday 30th August 2018

Date Location

28August

Woolgoolga town centre

29August

Coffs Harbour Central Business District

CHC Medical Centre, 345 Pacific Highway, CoffsHarbour between 1pm and 2:30pm

30August

Coffs Harbour Central Business District

CHC Medical Centre, 345 Pacific Highway, CoffsHarbour between 10:30am and 11:30am

Successful Grandparents Day

Thank you to all our visitors who came to Grandparents daylast Thursday. All the children loved having their grandparents,nanas, pops, uncles, aunts, mums and dads visiting them inthe classrooms. A huge thank you to our canteen volunteersfor providing a yummy, healthy lunch and afternoon tea. Thiswas our new Canteen committees’ first big event they haveorganised. Well done to all volunteers involved. Well done to allour teaching and non- teaching staff for helping out on the dayand for organising educational and interesting activities for thestudents to share with their visitors. The Dance medley to finishthe day was lots of fun too! This years’ Grandparents Day hasbeen the biggest so far and we hope you can all come backnext year.

Garden Art

In a recent Peer Support lessons our students were involvedin listening to two stories and then completed an art activity.The stories we called “Only One You” and ‘Ishi”. Both thesestories are about being proud of who you are, that you arean individual, recognising feelings and emotions. Ishi is abouthaving one or two solid friends. All students were involved indiscussions around the themes of these books and then gotcreative by creating their very own solid rock friend. Theseworks of art are now featured in our front garden.

Dress like a farmer thank you

We have received a thank you from Quirindi High Schoolagriculture department for our kind donation from the DressLike A farmer Day. Our donation went towards providing muchneeded hay to the cattle at the High School.

Working Bee

A HUGE thank you to the awesome volunteers who helped outour working bee on Saturday.

Healthy Lunch Boxes

All Mullaway Staff have been noticing an increasing amountof students eating pre-packaged food at lunch time. A fewyears ago staff implemented a positive change and made thefirst break of the day lunch and the second break of the dayafternoon break as the children were needing a moresubstantial meal earlier in the day. By having their morenutritional lunch earlier in the day it helps to keep them feelingfull for longer, focused and re-fuelled ready for the next learningsection of the day.

Mullaway staff know we cannot enforce a “ No confectionary”food ban, however we are asking parents, carers and teachersto work together to promote healthy eating and nutrition aswell as modelling moderation with the “sometimes” food. It isDepartment Policy for all schools to promote healthy eating andgood nutrition.

Let’s all work together to promote healthy eating, good nutritionand an active lifestyle wherever possible.

The health and wellbeing of students is relevant to studentslearning and is very important to schools. The present andfuture health of students can be enhanced by quality learning

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and positive experiences based around food. Our Kids in theKitchen and Kids in the Garden are other initiatives Mullawayuse to enhance and promote health, nutrition and activelifestyles.

SASS Recognition Week

Our SASS staff celebrated their special week last week with aspecial morning tea, breakfast and some special Super Herocharacters from the students. We hope you enjoyed your weekand thank you for all you do for our school.

Tell Them From Me (TTFM) Parent Survey 2018

The survey is conducted entirely online on smartphones, ipads,tablets, laptops or computers. The survey will typically take15 minutes or less to complete and is completely confidential.The parent survey will be conducted between 29th August and28th September. Although participating in the survey is entirelyvoluntary, your responses are very much appreciated. Onceagain, all parents who complete a survey will be entered intothe lucky draw. We have two prizes, both being a $30 voucherfor the school canteen. Good luck!

To be in the lucky draw you will need to send us an emailmullaway-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au or come into the office andlet us know you have completed the survey so we can add youname in the draw.

I encourage all families to have their say in the future directionsof the school.

To access this survey please use the link:

https://nsw.tellthemfromme.com/xrhmn

Kathy Broekman – Relieving Principal

Coming Events

25th – 27thSeptember

Tuesday -Thursday

Theatrical Minds

28thSeptember

Friday Mullaball Cup

28thSeptember

Friday Last day of Term 3

TERM 4

15th October Monday Students and staff returnfor Term 4

30th October Tuesday Kinder 2019 InformationNight 6pm

31st October Wednesday Year 4 Excursion toCascade

1st November Thursday Kinder Transition 9.30 to1pm

1st November Thursday Year 3 Sleepover atschool

2nd November Friday Cascade Excursionreturns

8th November Thursday Kinder Transition 9.30 to1pm

15th November Thursday Kinder Transition 9.30 to1pm

22ndNovember

Thursday Kinder Transition 9.30 to1pm

26th – 30November

Monday -Friday

Years 5 & 6 LakeAinsworth Excursion

NEXT NEWSLETTER: Wednesday 26thSeptember

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Weekly Bee Awards

Monday 3rd September

Mrs Gentle Lorikeets Arlie Sallustio

Miss Hopper Grevillea Malyn Byrne

Mrs Carter Glossy Coen Ballangarry

Ms Canale Casuarina Isabella Paterson

Mrs Dobbs Kites Kai Moody

Mrs Lee Pandanus Bonnie-Lee Doig

Mr Grant Wonga Alivia Norman

Mrs Sutherland Lilly Pilly Alyssa Sheather

Mrs Dibb Bluegum Restyn Watson

Mr Cheers Kookaburra Makayla McAnally-Monaghan

Mrs Rayner Library Eddie McKelvey

Mr Wiggins Music/LST Dylan Timmins

Mr Paz LST Callum Hewitt

Mr Skinner LST Niah Hughes

Monday 10th September

Mrs Gentle Lorikeets Jai Norris

Miss Hopper Grevillea Emerald Ralph

Mrs Carter Glossy Olivia Hicks

Ms Canale Casuarina Zyla-Anne Gray

Mrs Dobbs Kites Gypsy Frost

Mrs Lee Pandanus Bryce Cannon

Mr Grant Wonga Mia Weston

Mrs Sutherland Lilly Pilly Raine Spicer

Mrs Dibb Bluegum Leevon Young

Mr Cheers Kookaburra Soul Hopper

Mrs Rayner Library Owen Smith

Mr Wiggins Music/LST The Backstreet Boys

Billy Macpherson

Stone Hopper

Soul Hopper

Tay Richardson

Mr Paz LST Xavi Ryan

Mr Skinner LST Tahli Gillett

New School WebsiteWe have a new school website just launched. Please be awarethat not everything has migrated over from the old website andwe are in the process of updating our information.

Check it out regularly – it looks great.

School HatsCould you please make sure your child’s name is on his or herhat.

The best and most economical way is to have the nameembroidered on the back of the hat, preferably first Name andInitial of last name. This would cost approximately $6.00 perhat, considerably less than purchasing a new hat.

Alternatively, we can print labels on iron-on tape for you to ironon the back and inside of the hat. Please send $1 into the officein a zip lock bag and we print TWO labels for your child to takehome for you to iron on.

School UniformsIf anyone has any second hand uniforms they no longer requireplease consider donating them to our uniform pool.

We are in desperate need to add to our stocks.

Thank you

Schoolzine AppJust a reminder to all parents to download the Schoolzine APPto your phone. See instruction on the link below.

This will deliver the school Newsletter to you each fortnight andalso enable you to request meetings with teachers and advisethe school of your students absences.

Parent Helpers and VisitorsAll parent helpers and visitors to the school are reminded toplease come to the office on arrival to sign in and collect aVisitors Badge. This is a Work Health & Safety requirement ofall school grounds.

Online PaymentsA secure Westpac banking facility has now been added tothe Mullaway Public School website to allow parents/carers tomake online Visa or Mastercard credit or debit card payments

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for things like voluntary school contributions, excursions &sporting activities.

Look for the $ Make a Payment button next to Contact Us atthe top of our homepage.

Follow the instructions on this page.

We hope that you will find this payment option convenient.Payments can still be made at the Mullaway Primary SchoolOffice by cash or cheque.

Glossy’s Grandparents DayOn Thursday Glossy had many visitors to our classroom for thiswonderful day. After the special Assembly we took our specialvisitors back to our room for a Grandparent or VIP Interview.We found out heaps of wonderful information about those weinterviewed. Then we had a guided lesson on portraits. We allfound a partner to draw and set about drawing their portraits,we had some amazing work completed by one and all. Finallywe had news. Our visitors joined in too, some bringing showand tell news other sharing stories of their days at school.

We had a wonderful time and we would like to thank all thosewho came and shared our day.

Premiers Spelling BeeMullaway Primary School participated in the annual PremiersSpelling Bee competition. Student involvement was excellentamongst the stages involved. Our school champions wereOscar Sutherland and Gracie Kennedy Stage 2, Tristen Risbyand Tane Murphy Stage 3.

Our school representatives participated in the Regional finalsat Boambee Public School on Thursday 6th September. Wehad one lucky student, Oscar Sutherland win the local RegionalJunior finals and made it through to the state level. All studentswho participated enjoyed the friendly competition and providedpositive encouragement for their fellow peers.

Stage 3 Mini-FeteThank you for all the help and support at the Stage 3 Mini Fete!

So much fun at this great Mullaway tradition.

Mr Cheers and Mrs Dibb

Toonschool - You need to celebrate howunique you are!

On Wednesday 29th August our students attended a workshopby Joffa Taylor a cartoonist and author. Students learnt to usecartooning in a positive way, participated in listening activitiesand learnt the importance of using manners. Students wereencouraged to think in a positive way rather than through afixed mindset. Students enjoyed the workshop and we hope tosee it back at Mullaway again in the future.

Student Testimonials

“It was fun to do cartoons at Toonschool. The cartoons werequite tricky to draw but in the end it was really fun”- Owen SmithYear 1

“I really enjoyed Toonschool because it was step by step and itwas really fun drawing”- Ella Ridge Year 2

“The fish cartoon was the best because he challenged us todraw it in 60 seconds”- Isabella Da Silva

“I liked it when everyone’s cartoons were different”- ZarliaStelzer

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Mullaway Primary School P&C FundraiserGolf Day

School administrative and support staffintroduction training days

The Department of Education is seeking people who areinterested in commencing work within public schools.

Canteen

Roster

Term 3

Wednesday 12th September Alice Murray

Thursday 13th September Alyssa Simpson

Friday 14th September Lisa Crofts

Wednesday 19th September Shantell A

Thursday 20th September Hayley & Jane Mckelvey

Friday 21st September Alexis Grayson & Renee Vines

Wednesday 26th September Alice Murray

Thursday 27th September Alyssa Simpson

Friday 28th September Maggie Lee & Nicole Kearns

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Term 3 Menu

Fresh Eggs

FOR SALE $5.00 PER DOZ

You can buy them from the Front Office.

Notes Sent Home Since the Last Newsletter

Permission NotesPlease make sure when returning permission notes to the FrontOffice to include

Child’s Name, Class Name & Year.

Thank you

Community Notices

Holiday Activities

Chess Camp

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Art Classes

Six-a-Side Mini World Cup

Northern Districts Rebels Junior Cricket Club

Registration Days

Players-coaches-managers10s.....to.....16s: girls and boysSat. 8th...15th...and...22nd September

9am...12.30pmCentennial ReserveInformation: Peter Holmes 0417 274 130

Bedwetting

Woolgoolga Nippers

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